Tag: Rohingyas
Lost contact with 180 Rohingyas drifting at sea
Relatives of some 180 Rohingya refugees who had been drifting in the Indian Ocean for several weeks have lost contact with the damaged boat and consider them “dead“, according to…
Sixty Rohingyas discovered on a Thai island
Fifty-nine Rohingyas have been discovered on a Thai island, likely abandoned by traffickers en route to Malaysia. Fifty-nine Rohingyas, including five children, believed to have been abandoned by traffickers en…
Washington calls Myanmar army violence against Rohingyas a ‘genocide’
The United States for the first time on Monday March 21 officially declared that the Muslim Rohingya minority had been the victim of a “genocideperpetrated by the Burmese army in…
Burma: Washington calls violence against Rohingyas genocide
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called Myanmar’s Rohingya crackdown a genocide during a visit Monday to the Holocaust Museum in Washington, which features an exhibit called “Burma’s Path to…
Burma: Washington claims that the military junta committed genocide against the Rohingyas
The United States has deemed the violence committed by the military in Burma against the Rohingya minority to be genocide and crimes against humanity, a US official told AFP on…